Kaiser-i Rum: were the Ottoman sultans Byzantine emperors
Screex For the Ottoman sultans, Rome did not end in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople, but passed into their possession On May 29, 1453, an Ottoman army led by the…
Cage life and child marriage: 10 crazy Ottoman laws and customs that would seem wild to us today
The traditions of the times of the Ottoman Empire are nowadays most often a source of bewilderment and disgust. We tell you what is wrong with them. The Sultan's Harem…
Abylai Khan
Abylai (Abylmansur) - an outstanding statesman, politician, diplomat, unifier of Kazakh lands. He was born in 1711. His grandfather, also named Abylai, came from the noble generation of Chingizids Zhadig.…
Political portrait of Abylai Khan
The XVIII century entered the history of the Kazakh people as the era of Ablai. Among his contemporaries such remarkable figures as Tole-bii Alibekov, Kazbek-bii Kazdauisty, Kart Kanzhigali Bogenbai, Abulkhair,…
IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND. WHERE DID THE ANCESTORS OF THE HUNGARIANS COME FROM?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hungarians celebrated the "Millennium of the Homeland", i.e. the thousandth anniversary of the Hungarians' arrival in the Danube basin. The fishermen's bastion…
Origin of the Nyman people
The Kazakhs trace their ancestry … from the people of the Turks. … The Turks are known by many names, but we are from the Uigur branch. Shakarim Kudaiberdy-uly. Genealogy…
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi — Kipchak of Otrar
On the outskirts of the Assyrian city of Haleb, where the route of the Great Silk Road passes, a lonely, poorly dressed, elderly man stood timidly, leaning on his staff.…
Kazakhs under the Dzungarian yoke
The Oirats constituted the left wing tumen (zun gar) of the Mongol army. In the middle of the XVII century nomadic Mongolian-speaking tribes of Oirats (Dzungars), in response to the…
The Dzungars and their nomadic khanate
In 1680 Galdan Boshogtu Khan annexed East Turkestan to Dzungaria. At the beginning of the XVII century in the territory between Sayano-Altai and Tien Shan, the Dzungar Khanate emerged, which…
Religious factor in Genghis Khan’s conquests
Since 1206, when the general Mongol hural on the bank of the river Onon proclaimed Temujin Genghis Khan, the lord of the world, and began the era of Mongol conquests,…